Now I am well aware this is a cheat ............. less a gasholder and more the inside of the Rochale Road Gas works.
But I have included it the series Gasholders.
The picture is entitled Gas Works Drawing Coke Rochdale Road and dates from 1894.
This was the time when “town gas” was manufactured on site and didn’t come down a pipe from the North Sea or in a container ship from somewhere on the other side of the world.
Back in 1894 Henry Tidmarsh recorded this one along with over 300 other illustrations for the book Manchester Old and New which was published in 1894 by Cassell with a text by William Arthur Shaw.
In three big volumes it told the history of the city but the real value of the book was in Tidmarsh's vivid depictions of Manchester, with streets and buildings animated with people.
Pictures; Gas Works Drawing Coke Rochdale Road, 1894, Henry Tidmarsh, from Manchester Old and New, William Arthur Shaw, 1894
*Gasholders,https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Gasholders
But I have included it the series Gasholders.
This was the time when “town gas” was manufactured on site and didn’t come down a pipe from the North Sea or in a container ship from somewhere on the other side of the world.
Back in 1894 Henry Tidmarsh recorded this one along with over 300 other illustrations for the book Manchester Old and New which was published in 1894 by Cassell with a text by William Arthur Shaw.
In three big volumes it told the history of the city but the real value of the book was in Tidmarsh's vivid depictions of Manchester, with streets and buildings animated with people.
Pictures; Gas Works Drawing Coke Rochdale Road, 1894, Henry Tidmarsh, from Manchester Old and New, William Arthur Shaw, 1894
*Gasholders,https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Gasholders
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